Introduce yourself :)

[kunibopl]

I am here to stay :-)

[intertrade]

Hello, im new to the forums here.
Lets see what interesting threads are in it.

[TheHeroMember]

Hi!

Been interested in Bitcoin as a phenomenon for a long time, but never got around to having the hardware to mine
or felt the need to trade. Coded some Bitcoin stuff, though, because that's interesting.

Very interesting

[TheHeroMember]

Hi, I'm Jenny

Can girls play this Bitcoin thing too?

Hello Jenny, welcome to bitcoin. Yes, of course they/you can. Enjoy playing with bitcoins. 

[truckingeek]

Howdy!

As the name implies, I'm a truck driver and a geek.  Used to be a network administrator, serious Linux freak, yadda yadda.  Getting into Bitcoin mining.  In my typical hacktastic fashion, I'm jamming a couple Radeon cards into an ancient Dell Poweredge 2800 server, which really isn't made for this sort of shenanigan.  I find that amusing.  The poor Poweredge is begging for more Astroglide, but that's another story entirely.

Being something of a hardware hacker, I've been looking at the FPGA miners and the backplane architecture of server hot-swap hard drives, and thinking the two really need to have a meeting.  How about an FPGA miner, that's roughly the size and shape of a regular 3.5" hard drive, include cooling fans and both power and USB connectors brought out the back as card-edge plugs, and a backplane that you can plug maybe 20 of the little buggers into.  Then you have one chassis with one USB connection to the host and one power connector to the wall (or a 12V battery, if you want to run solar or mobile or on a freakin boat or whatever)

Two LX150-3FGG484C FPGAs per card (~350MHash/Sec per pair) stacked 20 deep would give 8GHash/sec with 400 watts max consumption (plus the host).  Seems darned economical, in all ways including space.

I haven't delved too deeply into the bus architecture, but maybe sticking 10 on a card (probably about the size of a double-wide video card) would be more efficient, though more expensive per card.  $175 per chip gives $1750 and 2GH/S per card, at perhaps 80-100 watts including glue logic and fans and pretty blinking blue LED lights.




I'm just fighting my logorrhea right now.

[Count Schlick]

Hello all!

I'm not much for introductions, so I'll keep it quick. I'm just another newb among 1000s trying to get a handle on this whole bitcoin thing. I  think I'm getting the hang of it (I've spent the last few weeks riveted to the Wiki), but I definitely have a few technical questions. Hope to get those answered and then be a help to other newbies in the future.

[brewcrew]

whats up guys, i'm new here and to bitcoins in general. hoping to figure all this shit out in a somewhat timely manner

[Simply Kefir]

Hello, Just looking to list some healthy kefir grains on the marketplace and add to the many things you can get with bitcoins.

[TheHeroMember]

whats up guys, i'm new here and to bitcoins in general. hoping to figure all this shit out in a somewhat timely manner

welcome 

[ternit]

Hey,
Ternit reporting for duty, small time miner hoping to get bigger

[twoglovedanny]

long time lurker, first time poster! I have a little farm but summer is coming and i cannot take the heat. I am thinking about selling half of it but am not sure. FPGA is interesting but I am wondering what will happen in the future when it comes to bitcoin.

I would like to sell my 5970 while the price is high, but am still thinking about it.

I am running windows 7 and all is going well...I am just worried about the heat!

[SellStuff]

Hey everyone, new here.

[s0beit]

Sup, I'm new to the forums and I program things. I also eat food, and burn stuff.

[milsorgen]

Hello one and all. New to BTC but hoping to get experienced. Right now I'm just trying to find a way to buy some. Waiting on Dwolla atm but reading all the info I can and keeping a look out for any alternatives for instant gratification.

[ForShow5]

I like long walks on the beach...

Also, popsicles.

[ChiangYay]

Hi,
everyone.
I'm an enthusiastic follower of this  forum since 4 months.
I ordered my first BFL. 
Cant wait to see how it works.

Cheers.............Peter

[DubFX]

Hey there!
I am frequent bitcoin miner and user, i am member of bitcoin comunity for like 4 months, and did spend 45 coins so far.

[chumlee420]

Hi I am chumlee, I have been mining for about a year and I am looking to sell my rig. I think bitcoin may be heads for 7$ per again its already rose to 5.3 keep an eye on it watch it go up.  I am computing at about 1.3 -1.5 Ghash. So I may wait to see if it is going to go up any specualtion on prices?
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[TheHeroMember]

Hey everyone, new here.

Hello ! Do you Sell Stuff??

[World]

Hey everyone,learning around from bitcoin community and my eyes are open globally thx